Research Catalog

Title

Social policy for nurses and the caring professions / Louise Ackers and Pamela Abbott.

Author

Ackers, Louise, 1960-

Publication

Bristol, PA : Open University Press, 1996.

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Additional Authors

Abbott, Pamela.

Description

xiv, 264 p.; 25 cm.

Summary

• Social Policy for Nurses and the Caring Professions is based on the authors' first-hand teaching and research experience. The text has been carefully designed with the student in mind: a comprehensive reference list is provided at the end of the book, together with a glossary of important terms. The text is illustrated with tables and graphs throughout, and there are suggestions for further reading at the end of each chapter. Social Policy for Nurses and the Caring Professions is a key textbook for all students undertaking diploma or degree level courses in nursing, health and social care.
• Social Policy for Nurses and the Caring Professions is one of a series of texts which provide coherent and multi-disciplinary support for all professional groups involved in the provision of health and social care. It provides the student with a lively, readable and well illustrated introduction to social policy. The authors take as a starting point the importance of the conceptual connection between health and illness. The stress throughout the book is on the significance of social policy in preventing ill health and disability as well as supporting the sick and disabled. A broad approach to social policy is taken, and the text is organized around the provision of welfare in the following contexts: public, private, voluntary, and informal. Consideration is given to competing ideologies of welfare and the development of welfare as well as contemporary provision.

Series Statement

Social science for nurses and the caring professions

Uniform Title

Social science for nurses and the caring professions.

Subject

• Great Britain > Social policy
• Medical social work > Great Britain
• Public Policy
• Social Welfare
• Social Work
• State Medicine
• United Kingdom

Genre/Form

Nurses Instruction

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Ch. 1. What is social policy? -- Ch. 2. The development of a welfare state -- Ch. 3. Health inequalities and state health policies -- Ch. 4. Poverty, inequality and social policy -- Ch. 5. State income maintenance and welfare benefits -- Ch. 6. Privatization and social welfare -- Ch. 7. The changing role of the voluntary sector in the provision of social welfare -- Ch. 8. The role of informal care -- Ch. 9. The mixed economy of care: Welfare services for dependent people -- Ch. 10. Welfare pluralism in the 1990s: The changing role of the state.

ISBN

• 0335193609
• 0335193595 (pbk.)

LCCN

^^^95049768^

OCLC

33983792

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library